AllMusic Review by Nitsuh Abebe
David Slusser's work history ranges from collaborations with John Zorn to music editing for Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, and co-composing with David Lynch. Delight... demonstrates why -- Slusser has a sense of cinematic composition and sound collage that is simply amazing. "Kubrick" is a wide-screen tone-poem that (like all of Slusser's work) goes beyond any sense of "experimentalism" into something concrete and fully realized, while "Dragon" accompanies the …Read more

"fashionably quirky...burns up his soprano saxophone"
Ohio expatriates David Slusser and Ralph Carney pay tribute to their rust belt beginnings on the Akron-inspired Rubber City. Slusser recorded these live quartet performances in the San Francisco Bay Area, with guests dropping in to add flavorful touches. Slusser, Carney, and drummer Chris Ackerman all barely escaped Ohio without gross disfigurements from industrial accidents to make music on the West Coast. Rounding out Slusser’s quartet is …Read more

David Slusser wrote all ten selections for this CD, utilizing an instrumentation that hints at the Ornette Coleman Quartet (substituting a second reed for Don Cherry's cornet) while adding a healthy dose of his wit and hints at earlier styles of jazz. "Jazzdeath," which is full of obvious song quotes and clichés, sounds as if the musicians are trying to kill jazz or at least satirize the hard bop revival of the 1980s, while …Read more

by John Zorn

Game Pieces Volume 1 - featuring pairs of instrumentalists: Chris Brown and David Slusser on electronics, Fred Frith and John Schott on guitars, and Dave Lombardo (Slayer) and William Winant on percussion.

by Voices In The Wilderness

Created out of the anxiety & disillusionment of G.W. Bush's 2004 re-election, artists transcend genres & ideologies for the common purpose of dissent against the Bush regime and ending the war in Iraq.